Mulryan was the only Irish person to be named on the list, which included US billionaire and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and the chairman of CC Land, Cheung Chung-kiu.
[1] He grew up in rural poverty in the village of Oran, near Castlerea, Co Roscommon,[1][6] in the west of Ireland, in a farming family with seven children.
[7] At 26 he set up his own company and shortly afterwards founded Ballymore, which is now considered one of Europe's biggest property developers.
[11] In 2019, published accounts for one of the group’s key UK-registered companies, Ballymore Properties Ltd, show it earned profits of £176.3 million in the 12 months ended 31 March 2018.
Embassy Gardens is set to provide "up to 1,982 new homes alongside shops, cafes, bars, restaurants, business space, a 100 bed hotel, a health centre, children's playgrounds and sports pitches".
Ballymore told the FT increases were due to inflation in services such as insurance and utilities, but residents said the charges also covered repairs to fix poor workmanship during the developments' construction.
[24] In 2017, Mulryan's Ballymore Properties sponsored the headline race on the last day of the Punchestown National Hunt Festival.
Worth over €100,000, the Ballymore Handicap Hurdle is run over two and a half miles and is one of the most hotly contested races of the festival.
[25] His friends include the athlete and politician Seb Coe and Bono, the singer in the Irish pop group U2.